The 6th Infantry Division: In World War II 1939-1945

1st Edition - Stated (Infantry Journal Press - May 1947). VERY GOOD, no dust jacket as issued. Gilt lettering faded on spine. No marks in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . The 6th Infantry Division of World War II holds the unchallenged record for consecutive days of continuous combat in the Pacific Theater, 219 days of continuous combat, set by the Division on the Island of Luzon, the Philippines. At the end of World War II, the Divisions men were the most heavily engaged troops in the United States Army still fighting Yamashitas men in the Cagayan Valley of Northern Luzon. During the War, the men of the 6th Division fought a total of 306 days of combat. Casualties for the 6th Division totaled 1,174 dead, 3,876 wounded and 9 missing. Japanese casualties fighting the Division totaled 23,000 dead and 1,700 captured. Before the long battle for Luzon, the Divisions baptism of fire came in a battle at Maffin Bay, New Guinea, known as the battle for *Lone Tree Hill.* It was to prove to be the bloodiest ten days in the entire New Guinea campaign to take a stubbornly defended hill from a determined and well-entrenched enemy. The battle took place in a larger campaign better known as the Wakde-Sarmi Operation West of Hollandia, in then, Dutch New Guinea, now Iryan Jaya. The Battle for Lone Tree Hill, which the Division Spear-Headed, included the type of merciless fighting, against an elite and heavily entrenched Japanese Infantry, only encountered elsewhere in New Guinea by the 32nd Infantry Division at Buna and the 41st Infantry Division on the Island of Biak.

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Publisher: Infantry Journal Press

Year: 1947

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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